Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa /
"At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked 'whites' or another marked 'non-whites.' Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and other remin...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2017]
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| Series: | Columbia scholarship online.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/autr17758 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Desegregating the past
- Memory entrepreneurs : history in the making
- The curated past : remembering the collective
- Managing collective representations
- Breaking the collective : memory deviants
- Conclusion: The museumification of memory.